Find A Grave - Lockport

Brandt, Albert 'Allie' b. December 14, 1902 d. April 17, 1982
Professional Bowler. Born in Lockport, New York, in 1902, he was a highly successful bowling champion. He is best remembered for bowling three successive games in 1939 in a record that remained unbroken for 50 years. He bowled games of 297, 289, and 300, for a total of 886 pins in an American Bowling Congress sanctioned event. In 1946 and 1947 he was named to the First All-American Bowling Team. In 1958 he became a charter member of the Professional Bowlers Association, and served as the first...[Read More] (Bio by: K)
Cold Springs Cemetery, Lockport, Niagara County, New York, USA
Crowley, Richard b. 1836 d. 1908
US Congressman. Elected to represent New York's 31st District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1879 to 1883. Also served as a Member of the New York State Senate from 1866 to 1869. (Bio by: K)
Glenwood Cemetery, Lockport, Niagara County, New York, USA
Flagler, Thomas Thorn b. October 12, 1811 d. September 5, 1897
US Congressman. Elected to represent New York's 31st District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1853 to 1857. Also served as a Member of the New York State Legislature. (Bio by: K)
Glenwood Cemetery, Lockport, Niagara County, New York, USA
Hunt, Washington b. August 5, 1811 d. February 2, 1867
Governor of New York State.
Glenwood Cemetery, Lockport, Niagara County, New York, USA
Plot: Take your first right, then the next left and follow for 100 yards
Morgan, William G. b. 1870 d. 1942
Inventor of Volleyball. Born in Lockport, New York, he was a physical education director at the YMCA in Holyoke, Massachusetts, when he realized that basketball was much too strenuous for the older gentlemen. He set out to invent a game for men as well as women to play with no limit to the number of people on the court at one time. The first game was played on December of 1895 and was called Mintonette. It was a little different from the volleyball we are used to today and each side could hit...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Glenwood Cemetery, Lockport, Niagara County, New York, USA
Plot: Take your first right, then the next left, grave is on the right hand side on the hill
Sutherland, Grace b. 1854 d. January 13, 1946
Vaudevillian Actress. Appeared in vaudeville acts in the 1880s along with her sisters. They were distinguished by their very long hair.
Glenwood Cemetery, Lockport, Niagara County, New York, USA
Sutherland, Isabella b. 1852 d. December 1, 1914
Vaudevillian Actress. Appeared in vaudeville acts in the 1880s along with her sisters. They were distinguished by their very long hair.
Glenwood Cemetery, Lockport, Niagara County, New York, USA
Sutherland, Mary d. May 12, 1939
Vaudevillian Actress. Appeared in vaudeville acts in the 1880s along with her sisters. They were distinguished by their very long hair.
Glenwood Cemetery, Lockport, Niagara County, New York, USA
Sutherland, Naomi b. 1858 d. July 13, 1893
Vaudevillian Actress. Appeared in vaudeville acts in the 1880s along with her sisters. They were distinguished by their very long hair.
Glenwood Cemetery, Lockport, Niagara County, New York, USA
Sutherland, Sarah b. 1845 d. September 9, 1919
Vaudevillian Actress. Appeared in vaudeville acts in the 1880s along with her sisters. They were distinguished by their very long hair.
Glenwood Cemetery, Lockport, Niagara County, New York, USA
Plot: Castlemaine Mausoleum
Van Horn, Burt b. October 28, 1823 d. April 1, 1896
Civil War US Congressman. He was elected as a Republican to represent New York's 29th and 31st Districts in the United States House of Representatives, serving first from March 4, 1861 to March 3, 1863, then from March 4, 1865 to March 3, 1869. (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
Glenwood Cemetery, Lockport, Niagara County, New York, USA

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